Training in: Parenting & Behavior Behavior & Nutrition Safety & Support
Optimize your child's success with
Threshold Center for Behavior Consultants.
We focus on your family.
Welcome to Threshold Applied Behavioral Consultants.
What We Offer
Our focus is on families and developing the parenting skills needed for their child on the autism spectrum.
- We teach you how to implement your child’s Individual Education Plan (IEP) and Behavior Improvement Plan (BIP) at home.
- We teach you to recognize and reduce behavior risks to your child and other family members. We teach you how to teach your child.
- We provide the tools to reduce setbacks in your child's progress and teach you how to use them.
- We teach safety and de-escalation methods.
- We evaluate the desired behavior results and describe the behaviors needed to achieve those results.
Threshold's consultants have more than 50 years of direct hands-on experience with autism, children, and adults on the autism spectrum. We focus on the family and ensuring you have the tools to be successful with your child.
Threshold consultants can help you learn effective parenting
Applied Training - Let Us Teach You
We provide consulting services that focus on helping families with children on the autism spectrum achieve the best possible outcomes. Our services are tailored to five critical areas:
1. Implementing behavior plans at home.
2. Evaluating and offering nutritional counseling.
3. Providing training for crisis management and de-escalation at home.
4. Offering first-aid and safety programs.
5. Providing guidance on the appropriate management of sexual behavior.
1.implementing BEHAVIOR PLANs at home
Parent Training - We Teach You How to Continue at Home What Your Child is Doing in School.
We convert "Behavior talk" to your normal language.
The best schools in the world are of little value if what is taught is undone when your child goes home. The best home environment is of little value if what is learned is undone when they go to school.
Every profession has a language that is shared between professionals. To them, every word makes sense. There are "mands and tacts." There are Inraverbals and intermittent schedules of reinforcement. What about setting events, and the list goes on.
Moms and dads do not have years to learn a new vocabulary, much less how to implement these plans at home.
We teach parents and siblings how to implement behavior and education improvement plans (BIPs and EIPs). We work with everyone involved to ensure consistency within and between settings.
Behavior Plan Training - (Your Application of the Science)
We teach parents and siblings how to implement behavior and education improvement plans (BIPs and EIPs) at home. We work with everyone involved to ensure consistency within and between settings.
Threshold Consultants offer workshops and training programs based on community needs we have seen over the decades.
Workshops typically last one to two days and include all materials necessary to gain skills and improve their understanding of continuing your child's home training program.
2.Evaluating and offering nutritional counseling
Nutrition Analysis and Behavior
Almost half the children and adults on the autism spectrum and children with ADHD are diagnosed with a gastrointestinal disorder. The human body is a wonderfully balanced and sophisticated chemistry set. The body and learning suffer when the right chemicals (food) are not ingested. The brain and gut demonstrate the greatest loss of function. This can lead to behavioral issues and loss of productivity and learning.
- What is reinforcing for your child? Too often, therapists use candy or chips and high-sugar drinks. While these " reinforcers" are easily manipulated and always available, the sugar load is devastating to the teeth.
- Many children without dental care will have lost their permanent teeth before they are fourteen.
- Tooth decay and infections in the mouth can lead to heart disease and other potentially life-threatening diseases.
- Autism is also affected by food allergies. Our laboratories can identify allergies and determine if they are an issue.
- Our team assesses nutrition requirements and more nutritious ways to use food as a reinforcer for teaching your child.
- Behavior change requires reinforcers. Let our nutrition experts assist in developing a program for your child.
3. Offering first-aid and safety programs.
Managing a Bad day at Home
Everyone has a bad day. This includes children and adolescents on the autism spectrum.
What leads to crises?
- Learn how to get to the root cause of your child's problem.
- Training and hands on experience. The more you train to easier to manage.
- Feedback. We will work to ensure that you understand and get the feedback needed to achieve habit level.
- Learn why de-escalation is preferred over prevention and why prevention is the best approach.
- Criteria for restraint. Learn when, and why restraints are necessary.
- Retraining is necessary. Safety of your child and family require your skills and knowledge is recertified annually.
Bringing out the best in families is our goal
Threshold 1972 in Teena Willard's home.
Threshold Center for Autism Clinic Waiting Room
